I have included a link to an English translation of the original article.

It seems to me that large software companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon and others like them, are shooting themselves in the feet by
creating backdoors or providing access to sensitive and private information.

Eventually people will no longer trust American providers. It's already happening. Contracts are being canceled. People are also becoming tech savvy
and secure solutions to store your data and e-mails at home can be found almost anywhere, not to mention that these systems are cheap.

It seems that Snowden's revelations will have a deeper impact than anticipated. Sooner or later the government has to learn that it has to follow the
same rules it expects its citizens to follow and that the Constitution is not just some piece of paper.

Originally posted by ManFromEurope
The NSA/Snowden-affair WILL cost the IT-industry billions of dollars, and has already. All because foreign companies are not trusting the security of
their data in the US-based cloud services anymore.

Hey, thank you, NSA.

We will save our data over here, because, you know.. your spying and copying of our companies valuable data as soon as it crosses into the USA!

And this will cost you dearly. Really, really dearly.

Maybe you people over there haven't realized it yet (NSA spying on other countries? Who cares?), but no *freaking* company in the world is trusting
your cloud services anymore!

You say "you people" as if Americans aren't human beings, as if every American is the same.

As if Americans don't care what the NSA is doing. As if you are better than any American.

Get off your high horse, plenty of Americans are outraged.

S&F for the information provided in the original post. I can only hope foreign companies reluctant to use cloud and other services provided by
American companies come up with alternative products & services. Lots of us will be interested in utilizing those services.

It will be interesting to see if a completely new 'operating system' is brought in by various countries and the internet will become basically
fragmented finally.....as was always inevitable. It was always going to be the case the countries would have to use their own internet to protect
themselves from others snooping so perhaps it will all operate on two levels in the future.

Originally posted by Thorneblood
So are we just all going to pretend that China hasn't been hacking us for years and stealing as much information as they can on almost every possible
industry?

Are we gonna also pretend that the growing number of terror based hacking groups can't breach into systems and do what they want to get their message
across?

I might not trust the NSA completely, but i trust them a hell of a lot more then i trust our enemies.

And here it comes... Your enemies are created by yourselves, nothing more, nothing less. Your desire to "bring democracy" to other countries has
created countless wars and enemies. I weep for the americans that hate their consecutive war mongering conflict creating governments.

Originally posted by Thorneblood
So are we just all going to pretend that China hasn't been hacking us for years and stealing as much information as they can on almost every possible
industry?

Are we gonna also pretend that the growing number of terror based hacking groups can't breach into systems and do what they want to get their message
across?

I might not trust the NSA completely, but i trust them a hell of a lot more then i trust our enemies.

And here it comes... Your enemies are created by yourselves, nothing more, nothing less. Your desire to "bring democracy" to other countries has
created countless wars and enemies. I weep for the americans that hate their consecutive war mongering conflict creating governments.

Agreed. It's like curing the illness by attacking the symptoms...we know that's a wrong approach. But it is sold as a cure...

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